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Live starting : Type : Sesterce
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Viminacium, Mésie Supérieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 20,79 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Joli revers. Fine usure régulière. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Gordien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M S C-OL VIM// AN IIII.
Reverse description : La Mésie debout de face tournée à gauche, placée devant un taureau à gauche tourné à droite et un lion à droite tourné à gauche ; le taureau lève l’antérieur gauche.
Reverse translation : “Provinciæ Mœsiæ Superioris Colonia Viminacium/ Anno quartum”, (Colonie de Viminacium province de Mésie supérieure/ quatrième année).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Kotschev pour l’an IIII a relevé un poids moyen pour le sesterce de 18,45 g pour 107 exemplaires avec dix coins de droit. A. Kotschev a relevé des poids supérieurs à 23,00 g pour ce type.
Historical background
GORDIAN III
(02-03/238-03/244)
Augustus
Gordian III is the grandson of Gordian I and the nephew of Gordian II, ephemeral emperors of the year 238. At the request of the people of Rome, he is chosen as Caesar by Balbin and Pupian and succeeds them after their assassinations. Emperor at 13, married at 16, killed at 19, this is how the life of this young man could be summed up, victim of the appetites of Philippe the Arab, new prefect of the praetorium.
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